Improvement in fluting-machines



UNITED STATES Pagg@ OFFICE.

IMPROVEMENT IN FLUTlNG-MACHI-NES.

Specilication forming part of Letters Patent No. 57,403, dated August 21, 1866.

o all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES A. STERLING, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Fluting- Iron; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which Will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in Which- Figure l represents a side elevation of this invention. Fig. 2 is a transverse section of the same, taken in the plane indicated by the line o x, Fig. l.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

, This invention relates to afluting-iron composed of a flat corrugated bed and a segmental corrugated presser, the corrugations of the presser being made to match with those of the bed in such a manner that by the combined action of the bed and presser textile fabrics or other exible materials can be iluted With the greatest ease and facility.

A represents the bed, which is made of castiron or other suitable material which Will bear heating. On its upper surface this bed is provided With corrugations a, of any desirable pitch, which match With the corrugations b in the convex surface of the presser B. This presser is also made of cast-iron or other suitable Inaterial, and it is provided with a handle, O, so that it can be conveniently operated.

The operation is as follows: The bed A is heated, so that the fabric or material to be uted can be placed on it Without injury, and after said material has been adjusted in the proper position the presser, which may also be heated, is carried over.it. By the combined action of the bed and presser the material is tluted in the desired manner.

Itis obvious that the corrugations in the bed and presser can be made of any desired ineness, according to the article to be iluted, and a tluting-iron is obtained which can be made at a triiiing cost, and which produces the desired effect in many cases more perfectly than the costly iiuting-machines now in use.

Having thus described myinvention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- A iluting-maehine composed of a corrugated bed, A, and a correspondingly-corrugated segmental presser, B, substantially as set forth.

OHAS. A. STERLING.

Vi tnesses WM. F. MGNAMAEA, W. HAUEF. 

